This week, I decided to prune my dogwoods. To ensure that I have plants of manageable size and to make sure that I have some lovely coloured stems next winter, I have hard pruned my dogwoods. The new shoots that grow this season will turn a beautiful orange/yellow next winter. Here are the before and after photos. This is Cornus Sanguinea ‘Winter Beauty’.
Even though it is only the end of February, it is surprising just what is growing. As I was walking round my garden I found that my Clematis viticella ‘Etoile Violette’ was already shooting. This deciduous climbing shrub grows vigorously each year and it flowers on the current season’s growth, so each year I cut the plant back hard so that I have flowers at a height to cover the side of my swing-seat. Here are before and after photos:
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